Legal opinions begin with a recitation of the facts of the case. They are rarely a pleasure to read, but Judge Neil Gorsuch, President Donald Trump’s nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court, has elevated them to a form of wry nonfiction.

“Haunted houses may be full of ghosts, goblins, and guillotines, but it’s their more prosaic features that pose the real danger,” began one 2012 ruling by the judge in, of all things, an insurance dispute over on-the-job injuries. “Tyler Hodges found that out when an evening shift working the ticket...

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